Bid to reach expatriates
PA Wellington The New Zealand High Commission in Papua New Guinea is trying to reach about 70 New Zealanders who live in the port city of Rabaul where there might be a volcanic eruption in the next few months.
The deputy High Commissioner, Mr Peter Aitken, said that there was no panic in Rabaul, but the commis-
sion wanted to establish how many New Zealanders were in the town, and what evacuation plans they had. Mr Aitken said that the commission’s second secretary, Mr Graeme McGuire, was in Rabaul to check on New Zealanders in the town. Before Christmas 70 were known to be holding a variety of jobs in the east of the island of New Britain.
He said the commission was also placing notices in local newspapers asking New Zealanders to register their names with the commission.
Everybody appeared calm in Rabaul, he said, and most of the inquiries they had dealt with about the situation came from people in New Zealand with relatives in the area.
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